Ultra-Orthodox Jews' Rockland rally to highlight dangers of Internet

11:40 PM,
May 8, 2013

The Provident Bank Park field

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Several thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews are expected to pack the Rockland Boulders baseball stadium Thursday night for a rally about the potential dangers of the Internet.

The event follows rallies last year - including a gathering of an estimated 60,000 people at Citi Field and a tennis stadium in Queens - that warned of the Internet's dangers to members of the cloistered Hasidic Jewish world. Others there promoted some uses of the Internet as positive.

The Viznitz rebbe - Mordachai Hager of Kaser - is to be one of Thursday's keynote speakers, members of the religious community have said on ...